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FreezairForALimitedTime2011-02-01 20:32:14

It's taking me a little while to recover from the "mitrollsis," so instead, here's a mini-update. I noticed this several chapters ago—when you'll see it, you'll find you can't not notice it—but due to it being a very visual thing, I didn't want to bring it up until I could show you.

Well, I can show you now.

I found this un-be-lievable misprint in the book, smack dab in the middle of Chapter 3, page 46 in the Shadow Mountain edition. It's so egregious, I don't know how you couldn't spot it. Was it in the original manuscript, and preserved, for some mad reason? Did the publishers just not issue a proof copy for some reason? Because they're supposed to be printed specifically to catch crud like this!

...Wow. I almost want to bask in it. That is one impressive flub.

Comments

BonsaiForest Since: Dec, 1969

Feb 1st 2011 at 8:45:12 PM

You know, one of The Stanley Family books had multiple noticeable typos - although a good book, it had so many I wondered how they could be missed. It's not like they're published by a no-name publisher either.

But this is pretty in your face. I actually thought that was a paragraph break or something at first when I saw that pic.

FreezairForALimitedTime Since: Dec, 1969

Feb 2nd 2011 at 10:05:16 AM

I had to shrink it a little to make our image uploader accept it, but in the full size, the fact that that's a comma is pretty hard to miss.

lee4hmz Since: Dec, 1969

Feb 4th 2011 at 11:06:14 PM

I would say the guy has pretensions of being the next e.e. cummings, but I doubt he's talented enough for that.

moseythepirate Since: Dec, 1969

Mar 15th 2011 at 8:39:16 PM

Pretty bad, but not the worst I've seen. In my copy of Starlight, a sci-fi novel of dubious quality I was reading, one of the pages had lines printed in the wrong order. I still can't piece it together. Thankfully, it wasn't anything important-just three chapters of watching an ice wall veeeeery slooooowly advance toward our heroes.